Jim Anderton has just announced that Bottom trawling and dredging will be banned from banned from 32% of our Exclusive Economic Zone.
Sounds good but when the original proposal by the fishing industry (who we know are very responsible and sensitive to ocean ecology) came out it turned out to be a bit of a con.
This map shows the difference between the areas that the industry propose to close and where they actually do their bottom trawling. Hmmm.
The devil is in the detail was the Greenpeace response to the proposal in Feb 2006 … I wonder whether Jimbo has made any substantial improvements.
Responses:
Green Party: Fishing industry sinks to new low
Greenpeace: Government’s bottom trawl ban doesn’t go far enough
